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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rockets, such as: bursts, illuminations, pyrotechnics, sparklers, bottle rockets, and cherry bomb.
How to use rockets in a sentence
The heavy round shot injured some of the houses but the shells did not reach the town and the rockets passed over it.
ELSIE'S VACATION AND AFTER EVENTSMARTHA FINLEYHe got no reply, but the vessel fired three more white rockets; these rockets were also seen by Mr. Stone.
LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP 'TITANIC'BRITISH GOVERNMENTThe latter states that he went to the voice pipe at about 1.15, but was told then of a white rocket (not five white rockets).
LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP 'TITANIC'BRITISH GOVERNMENTAt 2.40 Mr. Stone called to the master that the ship from which he had seen the rockets had disappeared.
LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP 'TITANIC'BRITISH GOVERNMENTAt 4.30 he called the master and informed him that Mr. Stone had told him he had seen rockets in the middle watch.
LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP 'TITANIC'BRITISH GOVERNMENTHe asked Mr. Stone whether he thought this was the steamer which had fired rockets, and Mr. Stone said he did not think it was.
LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP 'TITANIC'BRITISH GOVERNMENTDistress signals (rockets) were fired, and attempts were made to call up by Morse a ship whose lights were seen.
LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP 'TITANIC'BRITISH GOVERNMENTBack against a silver sky stood the signal pile, and signal rockets flashed upward, to be answered from all the surrounding hills.
PENELOPE'S EXPERIENCES IN SCOTLANDKATE DOUGLAS WIGGINIf the rockets are all right, and the gunboat is not too far away to see the signals!
BOY SCOUTS IN THE PHILIPPINESG. HARVEY RALPHSONEven as he watched, the flare of its rockets arced against the blackness.
A WORLD IS BORNLEIGH DOUGLASS BRACKETTWORDS RELATED TO ROCKETS
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.